The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

T. c. HuNrLEY, of Stanton, Mich. has raised
radish that is 25 inches long and weighs IA
| pounds ounces @
| THREE AND oNE-HALF TONS or DIAMONDS, valued
at 500 100000 have been taken from the famous
| Kimberly mine since its discovery in 1871.
PIANO that had seen service for over hun
dred years, and had music in it still, fetched
but 81 at an auction the other day in Reading
| Pa
| In Ohio 100 farmers institutes will be held
next winter as part of the commemoration of
the one hundredth anniversary of the founding
of the State.
LITTLE MISS LIZZIE BELL. SINCLAIR, of Ever
| ttstown, N. j., celebrated her 18th birthday re-
Gently by completing bed quilt that contains
11,2lO pieces.
THE doctors of Paris now prescribe oyster
| juice as the most terrifying alinent that weak
constitutions, disguised with every other kind
| of food, can take.
ONE of the Brooklyn theatres displays a sign
| announcing that umbrellas are lent to patrons
| of the house on nights when rain storm begins
| during the performance.
THE American Board recently held farewell
meeting in Boston for fifty-eight missionaries
one to Spain, nine to India, thirteen to Turkey,
! sixteen TO Japan, nineteen to China,
A NASHVILLE UNDERTAKEN is authority for the
statement that, in accordance with the dying
request of lady buried in that city recently,
her new bonnet was inferred with her.
THE Presbyterans of New York city are talk
ing about raising fund of 81. 600, 900 for minis
teral relief and it is desired to have the amount
pledged before the centennial of Presbyterian
ism in 1888.
THE American Missionary Association has
buildings and lands worth $576000, endowment
funds worth S129,000, and trust funds amount
ing to $4,000. Its receipts last year were $500,
761 and its expenditures $29S,7S3.
AT BURG HILL, O., Charles Smith shot blue
heron at his carp pond and found forty-seven
fish in its stomach. From the appearance of
the carp they had just been swallowed, and con
stituted only one meal for the Bird
THE iron railroad bridge across the Missouri
river few miles below Kansas City is about
completed. 1t is one of the big bridges of the
world. 1t is 1892 feet long, weighs 81, 275 tons,
is 80 feet above high water, and its towers are
200 feet high.
CAPT. MACKENZIE, the famous chess player,
was pitted against thirteen of the best chess ex-
perts in Boston one night last week. Thirteen
was an unucky number for the BOstonians, for
they lost eight games and won but Three while
two were drawn.
| Rev. DIR. HALL of the Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church in Brooklyn read President Clevelands
Thanksgiving proclamation from the pulpit on
Sunday, with the remark that it was one of the
| few papers of the sort he had seen which he
fully approved Of
MARSHALL P. WILDER's latest hit is the toast
which the modest Irishman drank to the Eng
| lishman: Here's to YOU as good as you are
| and here's to me as bad as l am, but as good as
| you are and as bad as am. I'm as good as you
| are as bad as | am"
THE QUEEN REGENT of Spain has signed de-
| cree authorizing the construction of six war
vessels of 900 tons each, with speed of sixteen
| to twenty miles an hour; four torpedo boats,
| similar to the Ariete and twenty other torpedo
| boats of 60 tons each.
THE OWNER of fish pond near st. Paul has
made pet of one of the largest fish in it-a
trout, which appears at the surface of the
water at his call, eats from his hand, and when
particularly pleased, flops up into the air with
every manifestation of JOY.
CAPT. PARRIsHs HORSE. at Durham, N. c.,
kicked off a shoe while standing in its stall, and,
breaking the halter, trotted over to the black
smith S for new one. The smith OWNED what
the horse wanted and Shod it, whereupon it
walked quietly back to the stable.
SOMETHING is wrong with the men of Daven-
port, Ia, if the news is true that during the
past ten months sixteen husbands have deserted
their wives, and that in almost every case the
deserted women were young, good-looking,
good -natured, industrious and economical.
A FARMER near Albany, n. Y, whose vineyard
had suffered at the hands of thieves, arranged
system of wires among the vines, connecting the
wires with a powerful battery, and gave the
grape stealers shocks that proved entirely salts
| factory to himself and salutary to the thieves.
QUEEN VICTORIA has decreed that the Jubilee
medal, of which about thousand have been
given away, is to rank above all war medals
and is to be always worn on full dreSS-occaSonS.
If Victoria had been theatrical star she would
hax
THE RED MAN is fast acquiring the arts of civil
| lization. At little game of draw poker at
Centreville Ore last week. in which three In
dams took part, Poker Jim, noble chief, was
accused of concealing ace in his sleeve. He
| resented the insinuation and stabbed his two
companions fatally
FARMER O'RoURKE, of Ontonagon county,
Michigan, was whacking away at big hollow
tree the other day, when the AK cut through the
she'll and when he pulled it out it was covered
with blood. Then he heard growls in the tree,
and knew that he d struck bear He chopped
the tree down and killed the bear.
A S. NOTE issued by the Farmers Bank of
Wilmington, Del, in 1913, just seventy-four
years ago, has just returned from its long wan
behring's, having been sent on for redemption by
A. G. Douglass, of St Louis, A Wilmington
paper says that the note is well preserved and
there is no doubt of its genuneness.
Is there anyone who still sneers at the white
horse-red- haired girl theory? Let him read this
A Nashville man stood in a pool ROOM unde-
cided how to place his money. He glanced out
of the window as girl with red hair passed by
saw her, whired around, bet his money on the
only gray horse in the race, and won big pot
of money.
WHEN the principal of seminary for girls in
Washington, Pa, started to take her scholars
home from church the other Sunday evening"
she found the usual crowd of young men wait
ing outside the doors. She made the girls go
back, much against their will, and would not
bulge until policeman, whom she sent for
made the boys go away.
The Union League Club of Philadelphia, which
was organized in 1868, has furnished the model
for bylaws and constitution to every other
Union League Club in the United States not
excepting that of New York The Secretary
got SO tired OF writing the bylaws out in answer
to such applications that he had an answer
printed, and scores of clubs have profted by it,
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance worker,
still is actively employed though he makes no
fuss about it, He is now on his fifth week of
successful work IN Chicago. He absolutely
refuses to admit that prohibition or sumptuary
laws can keep men from being drunkards; but
breaches that belief in Jesus Christ and a
changed heart is the only cure for drunken.
ness.